Assistant Accountant
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: Finance
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Internet
Function: Finance

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
Just in case this is the first time you’ve visited our website Vend is an award-winning, web-based point-of-sale software for retail.  We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software, all of this to make life easier for our retailers. Vend is a fast-growing tech start-up, since launching in 2010 we’ve now got 10,000+ customers all over the world with more than 170 employees shared between our Auckland, Melbourne, Toronto, Berlin, London &amp; San Francisco offices.The Finance team is all about helping Vend scale effectively and awesomely. They are a world-class team serving the business globally from Auckland.  If every process is amazing and every interaction with anyone outside of the team is valuable then this team of spreadsheet-loving people is happy.We are looking for an Assistant Accountant with sweet accounting skills, a couple of years post grad experience and bucketloads of enthusiasm to join the team!  You’ll be either CA qualified, working towards certification or have another finance-related qualification.  It is super important that you are someone who works well in a team and is totally happy to pitch in and do what is needed to hit deadlines.  You’ll be working with undoubtedly the coolest bunch of accountants on the planet and there are ample opportunities to grow and develop your career with us.The kinds of things you will be doing in this role include assisting with:monthly accounts, including consolidations and balance sheet recsthe forecasting and budgeting processreporting on actual results vs. forecast and budgetregularly reporting on KPIstax compliancecontinuously improving systems and processesother finance and accounting projects and tasks as things come up.We always love to meet smart people, with a great attitude. Don't be discouraged if you can't tick every box on this list, if you are an eager learner, and have shown awesome potential - please get in touch. The Finance team would love to meet you. You never know what opportunities this team has to offer down the track. 

Requirements:
Winning attitude and pumped about helping contribute your skills to fuel the growth of VendCA qualified, working towards certification or equivalent finance-related qualification2+ years experience working in a fast-paced environment, ideally in a finance related roleFluent with all kinds of technology and financial systemsContinuous improvement focus - always looking at ways to streamline and improve processes.Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written, in particular the ability to translate finance and accounting jargon to language and graphs that non-finance people “get”.Can work well with lots of people juggling priorities.Likes change, lots of change.Simultaneously attend to details while not losing sight of the big picture.Absolutely mental attention to detail skills.May even have some background in retail (because we LOVE retail).Has awesome Excel skills (goes without saying really).A real team player that shares knowledge and will fit in with the Vend culture and values.

Benefits:
What can you expect from us?We have an open culture where we openly share our results and your input is truly valued.We have a great environment for you to work in and grow.We work hard but we also have a lot of fun at work!Contribution towards learning and development, conference fees and CA costs.Work-life balance or "blend" as we like to call it.  We know you have a life outside of work and at Vend you can have a life inside work too.Utilise all your talents.  Not just the ones written in your job description.We welcome all of you at work.  We don’t want you to leave your personality at the door.If you’re interested in joining one of NZ’s (and the world's, IMHO) most exciting companies, Best Workplaces and obviously the most fun and hard working environments around we’d love to hear from you.Get in touch, apply now, hit that button, get it done and come have a chat with us. We can’t wait to hear from you!